Shareholder, Carlton Fields, 2019-2025
Partner, McManus & Felsen LLP, 1984-2019
General Counsel, Clark Construction Group (CEI), 1979-1984
Attorney, Smith, Currie Hancock, 1976-1979
Law Clerk to Chief Justice
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
JAG Corps, U.S. Air Force, 1972-1976.
Practice is national and international. Former President of the American College of Construction Lawyers (ACCL) combined with Government Contract experience and General Counsel for a major national general contractor.
Litigated construction disputes (jury and non-jury) in state and federal courts and before Boards of Contract Appeals for owners, general contractors, architects, engineers, subcontractors and suppliers. As advocate, has arbitrated cases nationally and internationally involving fiber optics, power plants, hospitals, retirement homes, hotels and resorts, office buildings, beach bulkheads, retail developments, roads and rails.
He is an active arbitrator on local, national, and international cases. He is a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is on the construction, commercial, and international panels of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), an inaugural member of the American Arbitration Association’s elite Mega-Project Construction Panel of Arbitrators, and an arbitrator with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and the Arbitration and Mediation Court of the Caribbean (AMCC).
Served as counsel for National construction trade associations, Associated General Contractors (AGC), and subcontractor Mechanical Contractors Association of American (MCAA) & Associated Specialty Contractors (ASC) in the development of AIA standard form construction contracts.
Has testified as expert witness, in open court on construction contracts in the District of Columbia and in Grenada.